Jan Garbarek is devoting most of 2004 to roadwork with his perenially popular group with Eberhard Weber, Marilyn Mazur and Rainer Brüninghaus. Tour activity begins in the Far East and continues in Australia before the band returns to Europe. Some summer festival dates are still to be added. Meanwhile, the following dates and locations are confirmed.

In September ECM will release a new Jan Garbarek album entitled “In Praise of Dreams”.
More details to follow on this page in the near future.

Jan Garbarek is featured in duet with violist Kim Kashkashian on “Monodia”, the important double album by Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, released in Europe on February 2 and in the USA on February 23. Other artists appearing on “Monodia” are violinist Leonidas Kavakos, the Hilliard Ensemble, and the Munich Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Poppen.

Also newly released is Eberhard Weber’s “Selected Recordings” in the ECM :rarum series, which includes several of the bassist’s collaborations with Garbarek, and much more. In his liner text for the disc, Weber speaks of the “thoroughly admirable balance of arrangement and improvisation” which distinguishes the Jan Garbarek Group.